ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,111, issued on July 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for handling uplink collisions" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: selecting first uplink communication resources for transmitting uplink data, selecting second downlink communication resources for receiving downlink data, detecting a collision where...